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LAERI Research Report: 12th Grade Math and College Success

Leonard Wainstein, Carrie E. Miller, Meredith Phillips, Kyo Yamashiro, Tatiana Melguizo UCLA Los Angeles Education Research Institute (2023) In a new report, Twelfth Grade Math and College Success, LAERI-affiliated researchers build on their work in Twelfth Grade Math and College Access and examine the impact of taking a math course in twelfth grade on L.A. Unified students’ science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) course taking […]

Developing and Supporting Students’ STEM Career Aspirations

Inspiring the next generation of talent to pursue careers in STEM is a national policy objective, an economic imperative, and an opportunity for students to pursue fulfilling, well-paying careers that meaningfully help solve pressing issues affecting our communities. In support of these aims, Pullias’ Joseph Kitchen has partnered with colleagues at Harvard’s Science Education Department as part of a nationwide […]

Assessing The Landscape For Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in U.S. STEM Graduate Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Dr. Julie Posselt, Kaylan Baxter, and Whitney Tang Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) More resources are being poured every year into efforts to broaden participation in STEM, and foundations and other resource providers need up-to-date evidence about what works in shaping individual and organizational outcomes. This report introduces such evidence, toward enabling the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop […]

The Asterisk Year: Grades, Admissions, and Equity in a Pandemic

October 14, 2020October 21, 2020 Pullias Voices julie posselt stem stem reform

Julie Posselt, Theresa Hernandez, Deborah Southern, and Steve Desir from the Pullias Center and Fatima Alleyne from University of California, Berkeley, share their collective perspective on a year that continues to defy description. Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Challenging. Difficult. Unusual. Our emails remind us daily that these times are like none other. 2020 gets an asterisk, and we are only half way […]

Upcoming C-CIDE Workshops on Selecting and Serving the Next Gen of Scientists and Engineers

October 24, 2019 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Events, Pullias News C-CIDE graduate admissions julie posselt stem

The California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) is holding a series of workshops with the aim of improving how doctoral programs select and serve the next generation of scientists and engineers. C-CIDE is a network of faculty and administrators across UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. It is dedicated to creating a sustainable system […]

Students double down on STEM careers after college summer bridge programs

January 25, 2019 pulliasadmin STEM reform joseph kitchen stem

A new study illuminates one powerful and effective way to address the STEM worker shortage and lack of diversity: Get students enrolled in bridge programs. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Students who participate in college STEM summer bridge programs are twice as likely to pursue a STEM career, compared with students who don’t. That is according to a new national […]

Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe in Inside Higher Ed: An Overlooked solution for diversifying STEM

January 14, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe stem

This op-ed by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar and research associate Elizabeth Holcombe was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 14, 2019. For decades, researchers have tried to boost the very low success rates of first-generation, low-income and underserved minority students in STEM education in college. Yet while more students from these groups have been entering colleges and pursuing STEM majors, […]

New research: Changing academic culture, from diversity work to STEM reform

January 3, 2019January 23, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar joseph kitchen julie posselt roman liera stem stem reform william tierney

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle big topics in higher education, such as promoting racial diversity and performing diversity work on college and university campuses, addressing the influence of corporate culture on academic culture, and adapting to changing faculty trends. In addition, new papers tackle STEM education, from summer bridge programs to large-scale reform. Read the abstracts and excerpts for […]

New research: Digital college guidance, STEM support programs, women leaders in higher ed

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar digital equity elizabeth holcombe marissiko wheaton stem stem reform tattiya maruco zoe corwin

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]

New grant to allow study of how L.A. students learn math

October 15, 2018October 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Awards, College access, Equity & Diversity, Math equity, STEM reform math pathways stem tatiana melguizo

Tatiana Melguizo will join a team of education researchers and practitioners to investigate students’ educational pathways from middle school to college. Are middle school students placed in honors math more likely to declare STEM majors in college? Do specific high school math courses help struggling students successfully transition to college-level math? Is a high school student who takes financial algebra […]